INDEX
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��disposing conditions of mental enidemics, 274-275. _
Communication, relation of easy means of, to mental epidemics, 283.
Compulsory attention, character istics of, 170-172.
Concerted action, a means of promoting process of fusion in an assembly, 250-253.
Confidence of subject, securing the, in use of suggestion, 225- 229.
Consciousness, relation between reflex acts and, 2 ; question of extent of, involved in instinct, 4; discussion of, as one of the controls of conduct, 8-n ; is life become luminous, n; re lation of habit to, 11-16; dim ness of, in animals as com pared with man, 13-14; feel ing-tones an accompaniment of, 65-66 ; why some expe riences cause pleasant and others unpleasant states of, 75-79; attention defined as fo calized, 165-166; attention the selective action of, 166-168; attention the adaptive function of, 168; species of concentra tion of, involved in spontan eous attention, 175-176; the span of, 178; varying degrees of intensity of concentration of, 181 ; degrees of, in veg etable, animal, and human or ganisms, 189-191 ; labouring man at his work characterized by state of diffused, 308.
Conservatism, appeal to senti ment of, as a means of pro moting mental fusion, 258-260.
Control of emotions, extent of voluntary, 118-120.
Controls of conduct, general, I- 18.
Controversies, futility of, made apparent, 60-61.
.Conviction, rational, as one of the classes of belief, 152-153.
��necessity of, in preachers, in treatment of doubt, 162-163.
Co-operation, problem of, as re lated to differentiation of mental systems, 61-64.
Co-ordination and co-operation of Christian forces, approved by the business man, 336-337.
Crazes, popular, 265-266; exam ples of, 266-268.
Creative synthesis, theory of a, 249. ^
Credulity, primitive, as one of the classes of belief, 152-153.
Creedal union, problem of, re sulting from differentiation of mental system, 59-60.
Crowding of people, as a means of promoting process of men tal fusion, 248-250.
Crowd-suggestion, development of state of, 242-244; members of assembly first to yield to, 246-247.
Crowds, psychology of, 236-238; fallacious notions concerning, 249. See Assemblies.
Crusades, generally healthy character of, viewed as mental epidemics, 268; why impossible under conditions of modern society, 287.
Culture, enrichment of life through, 86-89; value of, in religious life, 90-91 ; more even, regular, continuous flow of the feelings brought about by, 91-92; intimate relation of religion and, 92-93.
Davenport, F. M., quoted con cerning religious revivals, 288.
Deliberative assembly, special attitude of mind of individuals composing, 261 ; desirability of keeping small, 261-263; safe guards needed by against tendency to fusion, 263 ; tend ency toward unity of thought in, of a different breed from unity induced by emotionaj
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